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Precedency vs Priority - What's the difference?

precedency | priority |

In obsolete terms the difference between precedency and priority

is that precedency is the fact of serving as a precedent while priority is precedence; superior rank.

As nouns the difference between precedency and priority

is that precedency is precedence; superiority while priority is an item's relative importance.

precedency

English

Noun

(precedencies)
  • Precedence; superiority.
  • *, II.12:
  • *:Archimedes master of this Science, and who in truth and certaintie assumeth unto himselfe a precedencie above all others, saith, the Sunne is a God of enflamed yron.
  • (obsolete) The fact of serving as a precedent.

    • priority

    English

    (wikipedia priority)

    Noun

    (priorities)
  • An item's relative importance.
    • He set his e-mail message's priority to high.
  • A goal of a person or an organisation.
    • She needs to get her priorities straight and stop playing games.
  • (taxonomy, of a name) A superior claim to use by virtue of being validly published at an earlier date.
  • *
    • Neither [Jones] nor I (in 1966) could conceive of reducing our "science" to the ultimate absurdity of reading Finnish newspapers almost a century and a half old in order to establish "priority ."
  • (obsolete) Precedence; superior rank.
  • * 1608 , , I. i. 244:
    • Follow Cominius. We must follow you. / Right worthy you priority.

    Derived terms

    * aperture priority * prioritise / prioritize * prioritization * shutter priority * top priority